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If it would have happened at night, I would have slept through it. Loma Prieta calibrated that for me back in 1989. Anything less than a 5.0 and it did not wake me.

Indeed. I remember being handed a copy of the book before the movie came out. They had to leave out at least 1/2 of the book or the movie would have been at least 4 hours long. It was a great sea story, And you know the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale.

Interesting. I have 4.1 hours in a 150. I will never voluntarily increase that number. Why? When I run the seat all the way back in a 150 my knees still hit the bottom of the panel when I go for the brakes. I flew a 150 a whole 3 times when I was a student pilot over 20 years ago.

When they put screen doors on submarines then I will consider riding one. That was my suspicion, as well.

Ny Ford Escape knows about speed limits. It does not know about those. Me, too. Welcome to the club. This is not a new problem. I remember about 40 years ago when a shop in Silicon Valley that specialized in rebuilding MGs had a bumper sticker for sale (that I regret not buying) that...

I had one back when they were a thing. Ditched it years ago when they were no longer maintained. I do miss them.

Only if they fly in the right airspace. :)

I heard a day or so ago that Fiskers may be filing for bankruptcy. If that happens I would be suspicious of their customer service.

Mosquitos in Alaska and Wisconsin aren't a problem, they have N numbers engraved in their sides so they can be tracked.

Webster is wrong.

That is the truth! To get an electoral college would require a constitutional amendment. And the chance of that happening in a state is somewhere between 0 and non-existant.

Point a gun at anyone on the range when I am Range Safety Officer and you are gone. Fortunately, in the years I've served as an RSO at the club I haven't had to do that. But I wouldn't hesitate. She was guilty of not checking to make sure that the ammunition was indeed blanks, and he should...

I'll stick with our hybrid. Decent fuel "economy", a definite improvement over the range of anything else in the driveway. Now to figure out why the dealer orders all hybrids with hitch receiver. The Ford Escape hybrid is limited to a 1500 pound trailer, and a hitch receiver is a joke.

I agree. This state is rapidly turning into another California. The only reason I haven't left is that the grandkids live in western Washington. My wife likes living close to them.

I've got you beat, I've got 1 landing in a glider (none in taildraggers). I agree with your point, however. BTW, my one landing in a glider was after a flight in the UK, with a UK instructor. So my logbook has 0.4 hours of dual received. :-) Proof in the picture below. BTW, the guy in back...

I'm glad I left Colorado in 1983 (and California in 1995). The loonies are ruining otherwise great states.

The eclipse was a total one. I didn't look until then. Flying without eclipse glasses was just fine. During the totality where we were was not a problem.

Then there's the bumper sticker seen in Florida - When I retire I'm going to move north and go slow in the left lane. I wouldn't limit that idiocy to Florida. I've seen it here, as well.

We flew down from OLM to the vicinity of Salem, Oregon and watched the eclipse in 2017 from 7500 MSL. It was fantastic. I'd go along with your wife's idea.

I wrote the above in 2019. I'm still active in some standards work (writing this in a meeting in Milan, Italy), but the end is in sight. 2 more years and I'm finished. And not a moment too soon, I'm over 70 now. And jbarrass is right. I'm so busy that I wonder how I found time to work...